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Mr. Speaker, yes, I do believe that there is value in arming our Coast Guard with additional powers. I toured the port of Vancouver recently, and I was appalled to learn of the clever ways that criminals and organized crime are smuggling drugs and weapons across our border with basically zero ability for the Coast Guard and law enforcement—
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Mr. Chair, will the minister apologize to the victims and families who have lost loved ones for his deliberate inaction on fentanyl sentencing?
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Mr. Speaker, in my capacity as the shadow critic for justice and the Attorney General, which is a position that I have had for almost a year now, I have had the opportunity to travel right across this great country. I have spoken with local law enforcement. I have spoken with presidents of police associations. I have spoken with chiefs. I have spoken with provincial and territorial attorneys gener…
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Mr. Speaker, as I said in my response to the last question, law enforcement has long asked for a number of legislative reforms. What Bill C-2 would do is move the needle ever so slightly by expanding the search powers that police officers have when they are investigating sophisticated, transnational, organized crime entities like the fentanyl traffickers I talked about, but still at the expense of…
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Mr. Speaker, where is the minister for addictions? We had one in the 44th Parliament, but it is clearly not a priority for the Prime Minister and his so-called new government. As I indicated in my speech, there is a national fentanyl crisis. People are dying every day. There is blood on the hands of all Liberal members for showing such disrespect to the people struggling with these addiction matte…
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Mr. Chair, those were the minister's exact words during an election debate. Will the minister admit it is putting violent offenders back on the street?
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Mr. Speaker, it is absolutely laughable whenever my colleagues and I hear about this brand new Liberal government. The member who just asked me the question has been here since 2015. She is not new, and 90% of that bench is all old. It is being controlled by the same Liberal operation that has been in existence since 2015. When are they finally going to start to reflect, look at themselves in the …
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Mr. Speaker, the member for Waterloo loves to chime in, and maybe she will get the opportunity to ask me a question, but perhaps she can show me the courtesy of actually letting me respond to the question without being chirped and interrupted. In my previous capacity, not only was I a prosecutor, but I was a defence counsel. I will fight with every last breath for the charter rights and freedoms o…
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are living in fear. Violent crime is up 50%, gang-related homicides are up 78% and gun crime has skyrocketed 116%. These are not just numbers. They reflect shattered families, terrified communities and lives forever changed. The heartbreaking truth is this: Many of these crimes are being committed by repeat violent offenders, individuals who should have never been out on the…
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Mr. Chair, the minister promised to tighten bail rules just last week, but why did he not do that in Bill C-2?
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Mr. Speaker, congratulations on your appointment. This is my first substantive opportunity to speak in the 45th Parliament. Before I speak on Bill C-2 today, allow me to begin with a few words of thanks. I thank my election campaign team for their commitment, their long hours and their belief in what we stand for. Every door they knocked and every conversation they had helped bring us here. I than…
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Mr. Speaker, I know some members on the Liberal bench are tired of hearing this, but it is important to frame the response—
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Mr. Speaker, they are clapping for incompetence. This is the same minister they fired. This is the same minister who gutted bail and pushed soft-on-crime bills like Bill C-5 and C-75, which they all voted for, laws that helped unleash chaos on our streets and drive violent crime up 50%. Is the Prime Minister really doubling down on the same Trudeau insiders who always put criminals over community …
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Mr. Speaker, it is not just the energy sector under threat. It is public safety too. While the Prime Minister's new chief of staff is hell-bent on shutting down oil and gas, he has also brought back David Lametti as principal secretary, the same failed justice minister—
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government, which, in my view, has been the same Liberal government for the last 10 years, always talks really tough when it comes to improving community safety and addressing concerns of Canadians from coast to coast. I heard daily during this particular election period that Canadians are simply fed up. I know that police chiefs are fed up. I know that premiers are fed up…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just handed the keys to his government to Marc-André Blanchard, Trudeau's UN ambassador and now his chief of staff. This is the guy who wants to invest in killing oil and gas and do it—
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just handed the keys to the government to Mr. Blanchard, Trudeau's UN ambassador and now his chief of staff. This is the guy who wants to invest in killing oil and gas. Where are the claps? He wants to do it through Brookfield. Who else worked at Brookfield? Anyone? It was the Prime Minister himself. Why is the Prime Minister surrounding his government with Trudeau …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the Prime Minister's economic vandalism and inflationary spending, he has added more to the debt than all previous prime ministers combined. Now Canadians are paying more. Our national debt now sits at $1.24 trillion, an astronomical number our future generations will have to deal with. Canada's promise of powerful paycheques, affordable housing and safe streets ha…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has lost confidence of his cabinet, his caucus and all Canadians as he desperately clings to power. Yesterday the Liberals dropped their fall economic statement and literally ran out of the House: a $62-billion deficit, missing their target by a whopping 55%. What is the end result? Canadians are now paying more on debt interest charges than on health care. When wil…
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Mr. Speaker, as I articulated in my intervention, the government has demonstrated the complete opposite of what it promised Canadians. The Prime Minister wrote an open letter to Canadians shortly after his election in 2015. He promised to be a good economic steward of the taxpayer funds. He promised Canadians that the government would be open by default, as well as transparent and accountable. Let…
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Mr. Speaker, what an absolutely insulting remark from the member of the Liberal Party. It is insulting to Canadians. In 2021, Canadians gave the Liberals a minority government. They did not give them the plurality of the votes. We would be onto a different mandate by now if the Liberals did not have an unholy allegiance to the NDP. Are they on, or are they off? Are they dance partners, or are they…
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Mr. Speaker, if I did not make this emphasis known in my intervention, I certainly want to emphasize it in my response to my colleague's question. This is the final nail in the proverbial coffin of the leadership of the Prime Minister and the government. They have lost all moral and legal authority to govern. My colleague is absolutely correct. This is what I hear day in and day out from constitue…
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Mr. Speaker, I am appalled the member opposite would spend about a minute and a half to talk about just dribble that actually has no application to what Canadians are talking about. We brought forward this particular motion and several subamendments to finally deliver a message to the government that it needs to be accountable for its actions, needs to demonstrate integrity and needs to stop playi…
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Mr. Speaker, to say that I, my colleagues and opposition members in the House have been thrown a curveball would be an understatement. I had originally thought that I would be talking for the third time about the green slush fund and the various amendments to the motion brought before the House, trying to impress upon my Liberal colleagues, for one last time in this calendar year, why they should …
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Mr. Speaker, that is fair enough. However, the article goes on to show, apart from the Prime Minister and various ministers talking about a team Canada approach, what they have actually accomplished. What measures have they stipulated to the House and to Canadians? What steps are they going to take to address the concerns raised by President-elect Trump about the dangers of our porous borders? Apa…
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Mr. Speaker, I cannot disagree with that. These are selfish economic interests, and it is putting personal interests above the needs of Canadians.
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Madam Speaker, I am rising further to the notice I provided to the Chair under Standing Order 48 concerning the third and final report of the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency, which was tabled in the House of Commons earlier today. In brief, on May 31, 2022, the committee adopted an order for the production of several unredacted documents related to the government's declarat…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, crime and chaos have taken over our streets and communities. This past Sunday, Alisha Brooks was tragically gunned down by her boyfriend, a known serial abuser. As she was taking her final breath, this monster stood over her dead body and yelled at her. The accused, despite a history of gun possession, breaking and entering, weapon prohibition ord…
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Mr. Speaker, the sellout NDP leader has once again betrayed Canadians by siding with the Liberals to prop up the failing government, all to secure his $2.2-million pension. He is going to reject a motion of non-confidence in the government that was based entirely on his own words. He stated, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people,” yet i…
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a different point of order. I am asking for an apology and retraction from the Minister of Labour in his use of unparliamentary language and ad hominem attack against the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo. He referred to him as a slimeball. I clearly heard it. Colleagues beside me heard it. I asked him about it. He doubled down. It was unparliamentary and unprofessio…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has completely lost control of Canada's borders. Today, there are over 260,000 unprocessed refugee claims, a staggering 2500% increase since 2015, when there was just one shy of 10,000. Government documents also show that up to three million temporary resident visas will expire by the end of next year, yet the immigration minister's only solution is to hope people l…
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Madam Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the good citizens of Brantford—Brant, and it is a privilege to be speaking to the concurrence debate. Before I get into the merits of the concurrence motion, I would like to recap how we got here. The ArriveCAN scam is nothing short of a financial debacle, one that has ballooned from a modest estimate of $80,000 to almost $60 million, and…
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Madam Speaker, any misuse of taxpayer monies needs to be thoroughly examined by all members of the House. There is a serious lack of trust in our federal institutions. That goes back to the time the Prime Minister formed government. Any companies on the Liberal payroll, so to speak, that are funnelling money into and padding their own pockets need to be severely investigated not only by Parliament…
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Madam Speaker, the petitioners involved in this particular petition highlight the Falun Gong situation. They highlight that this is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline, which consists of meditation, exercise and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. As members have already brought to the House's attention, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the good people of Brantford—Brant, but here we are, another day and yet another Liberal scandal. This time it is the member for Edmonton Centre, a cabinet minister, who finds himself embroiled in yet another scandal that seems to be growing legs. What a legacy the Prime Minister and members of the government will take with them when they a…
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Mr. Speaker, when I was interrupted with not a point of order but one of debate, I was talking about our Prime Minister's experiencing things differently. We of course know the SNC-Lavalin scandal, the WE Charity scandal and the ArriveCAN scandal, which continues to be debated in committee and in the House. There is the green slush fund scandal that is approaching a billion dollars of wasted taxpa…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has been slapped with five ethics violations, the most in Canadian history. Time after time, the Prime Minister has shown total contempt for our ethics laws. He himself has been the subject of three ethics investigations and was found guilty of breaking ethics laws twice. The Liberal government allows the culture of law-breaking to persist, as six Liberals have been…
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Mr. Speaker, for the last eight or nine minutes, I thought I was transported back to 2011—
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Mr. Speaker, we know from evidence that Mr. Anderson and the Minister of Employment have both denied having any communication with each other since the minister's election in 2019. How does the member reconcile those points with the story that broke that confirmed the minister reached out to Mr. Anderson with respect to an outstanding Purolator bill?
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Police associations nationwide are demanding urgent bail legislation to keep our communities safe, yet just this morning, a stolen BMW crashed into a Toronto bus, injuring nine people, two critically. Two of the four accused were, surprise, surprise, out on bail, including one for a violent r…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, the Canadian dream of home ownership has become a pipe dream, unless, of course, someone is a friend of the Prime Minister. Today, it was revealed that he purchased a $9-million condo on Billionaires' Row in New York City for his good friend, Tom Clark, after Clark complained that his old residence was not up to his standards. It is difficult to do th…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I would like to once again offer my sincere apologies to the Minister of Public Services and Procurement and to all my colleagues. All members are free to speak in the official language of their choice, and my comments were inappropriate. I am sorry.
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With regard to the Minister of Public Safety's announcement on May 8, 2023, about the government investing $390 million "in programs to help stop gun crime and gang violence before it starts": (a) how much of the $390 million has been spent to date in total, broken down by province or territory; (b) which organizations received the funding and how much did each receive; (c) what were the guideline…
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With regard to the government’s Firearms Buyback Program: (a) how much has been spent to date on the program, broken down by fiscal year; (b) of the amount spent in (a), how much was for (i) program administration, (ii) payments to buy back firearms; (c) how much money went, or will go, towards the buyback program from the (i) allocated, (ii) unallocated, sums outlined in budget 2024; (d) when is …
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With regard to the government’s claim that it will build 250,000 new homes by 2031 as part of the Public Lands for Homes Plan: (a) how many homes have been built on the land involved in this plan; (b) how many homes are currently under development on the land involved in this plan; and (c) when was the disposal process started for each property, broken down by location?
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to speak to a petition from several Canadians in support of the Falun Gong and, in particular, Yao Fengyun. Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline that consists of meditation, exercise and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. An investigation done in 2006 concluded that the Chinese regime and it…
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Mr. Speaker, Liberal corruption is on rinse and repeat. The Auditor General is investigating $100 million in contracts awarded to GC Strategies, a two-person IT company that did no IT work on the failed arrive scam app. The RCMP has already raided the home of GC Strategies founder Kristian Firth as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. Will the Liberals cut the corruption and, again, get taxp…
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Mr. Speaker, my question is in English, but I digress. Liberal corruption is on rinse and repeat. The Auditor General is investigating $100 million in contracts awarded to GC Strategies, a two-person IT company that did no IT work—
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, time is up and now corruption is up. GC Strategies, a two-person company working from a basement, started scooping up government contracts like candy just weeks after the Prime Minister took office: $20 million for doing nothing on the failed arrive scam and $100 million in total in government contracts. If…
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, in relation to the introduction of my second question, the question was originally in English. I was unable to hear the minister's response because of commotion in the House. My volume was not working correctly on my earpiece. That is why I made the reference. Clearly, I recognize that every member in this House is entitled to ask questions and respond to question…
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